[Info-vax] Some questions on software for VMS 7.3 VAX

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On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:14:36 +0100
hb via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> On 01/25/2016 04:47 PM, lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
> > Dired mode starts up ok (everything is terribly slow) but when I select
> > a directory or file from the list Emacs crashes with a long traceback
> > starting with
> 
> I'm not a Emacs user, so I didn't try much. I guess what you are doing
> is ^X^F and then space:

If that blows up...

No, I was using meta-X dired. Emacs dired pulls up a directory listing in
"edit" mode and lets you do things like navigate to sub or superdirectories,
create a new directory, delete a file, delete a directory, etc. One of the
nice things about it is Emacs dired is a semi-graphical file manager not so
unlike the old Midnight Commander. When you're developing something you can
navigate quickly inside the editor and get all the files you want in edit,
without having to start seperate sessions or guess at directory paths
(filespecs).

> OK, I try to find what's wrong, here.
> 
> On the other hand, what means terribly slow, does emacs prints a line,
> pauses and then prints then next one?

No, I meant startup is terribly slow. But I may just not remember how long
EmacsOS takes to load on a slow box since I haven't run it on one in over a
decade. In comparison MicroEmacs open almost immediately but that is just
one executable with no gnu-baggage. With the gnuEmacs 21.2 we're talking
about it shows the line about starting a kept editor and then takes about a
minute to show signs of life/death.

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